The Last Airbender (2010)

The Last Airbender Synopsis

Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicole Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.

Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film The Last Airbender is the opening chapter in Aang's struggle to survive.

If M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is famous for anything, it’s for being an absolutely disaster. Fans of the animated series were over the moon with anticipation for the film, but now it stands as one of the most reviled big budget blockbusters of the modern era. Usually you can trace a disaster of this proportion to some bad mojo going on behind the scenes, and if a recently unearthed message board post is to be believed, then The Last Airbender is no exception to that.

This movie adaptation already had a fascinating world, fleshed out with a rich mythos, peopled with complex and funny characters, and prime for epic battles utilizing martial arts and elemental superpowers to pull from. All Shyamalan had to do was distill the show's sensational first-season down to a 90-120 minute movie. He had all you could wish for in source material, and yet he failed on every single level.

In just a few hours the Academy Awards will recognize the year’s best work in the movie industry. But before we can do that, the Razzies are here to dishonor everything that sucked. The 2010 Golden Raspberry Award winners have been announced and they’ve sent a very clear message to M. Night Shyamalan. That message is: yuck.

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It’s one thing to read about critics and moviegoers’ disappointment in your work, but it’s another to be called out on your poor performance in a room packed with reporters. During a foreign press conference for The Last Airbender

Pretty, polite vampires and shirtless teenage werewolves with rock hard abs easily topped the box office this Independence Day weekend, pulling in $69 million. Add that on to the sales it raked in on Wednesday and Thursday and

Your biggest decision at the movie theater right now isn't what to see, but how to see it. The Last Airbender opens in 3D this weekend and it's just the latest in a long, endless line of 3D Hollywood releases

This new poster dropped exclusively across the pond to the filmaholics at Empire and it's pretty cool. The still image of air and fire converging does nothing to show off just how impressive it looks in motion.

What I like about this trailer is that it explains for the first time exactly who this lead character kid is, what his purpose is, and how the other characters fit in around him. It's also the most we've seen so far of Dev Patel's villainous Zuko

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As someone with no knowledge of the show and little remaining faith in Shyamalan, I'm still going to need a lot more good reasons to see this movie. Still, the action and special effects look pretty good, the fantasy elements seem firmly in place

Producer Frank Marshall tweeted, “The AIRBENDER trailer will feature all the main characters...” The trailer was originally expected to arrive in December, but was pushed back until February due to lack of special effects.

Paramount has handed out two new character posters for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. They’ve gone with the look over your shoulder pose for this one, which I suppose is better than floating heads

Don’t expect any holiday gifts from Frank Marshall. The producer tweeted that we’ll have to wait until February for the debut of The Last Airbender trailer.
The tweet reads, “Not enough ILM shots finished, so LAST AIRBENDER trailer will not debut until Feb...”

I get that there's such a thing as a slow-burn marketing campaign, especially for a movie that's packed with special effects and is intended as a studio tentpole. But given that the teaser trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender was released in June

I’ll say this for M. Night, up until he became obsessed with killer herb gardens, his movies at least looked good. The Village may have been a huge piece of crap, but the colorful robes and pastoral setting looked great up on screen

For all of us, it's worth taking a look at the first images from the film, posted today at USA Today and showing off stars Dev Patel and Noah Ringer. The accompanying article tells us a little bit about the story